Jamie Loftus

So they needed to justify it by making him look like a genius.

New Paul and Exxon Mobil.

LGBT icons.

So Sam Bankman Freed gets into finance and he's a very good trader.

I mean, I have no way to judge this, but Sequoia says he was a good trader.

He was good at making a lot of money for other people and also a lot of money for himself besides.

Yeah.

He gave away 50% of his income to his favorite charities, but those charities were mostly the Center for Effective Altruism and $80,000, which is also an effective altruism charity.

That's a great question, Jamie.

It allows guys like McCaskill to live very well while also saying they only take $30,000 in salaries and give away the rest because their lives are heavily subsidized by these organizations that allow billionaires to pretend to be heroes.

So like charity.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So he remains there happily for years until 2017 when he begins to feel as if something is not right.

Now, spoilers.

He is having a quarter life crisis.

And this kid absolutely is a con artist.

And what I am giving you is the polished press friendly version of the story for a guy whose entire life, as far as I can tell, was one long setup for an ambitious con.

So when I say stuff like he gave a lot of money to charity because there's like other charities he gives to some of which sound like

but I have actually no evidence that he did.